FMCG Contracts in the UK excluding London

Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FMCG in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FMCG over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 353 389
Rank change year-on-year +50 +36 +77
Contract jobs citing FMCG 31 50 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.24% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.73% 0.82% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 23 40
10th Percentile £420 £373 £294
25th Percentile £431 £531 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £613 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.45% +22.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £825 £591
90th Percentile £643 £900 £689
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.38 £47.50 -
Median hourly rate £20.75 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -58.50% - -
75th Percentile £21.13 £52.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £20.75 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year -58.50% - -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

FMCG falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,237 6,073 7,789
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.15% 29.39% 32.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,601 3,646 5,256
10th Percentile £208 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £617
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 726 435
10th Percentile £16.73 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.91 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.62 £28.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.42% +29.55% +6.98%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.71 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.58 £22.49
% change year-on-year +4.81% +36.00% -18.24%

FMCG
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing FMCG as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for FMCG in the UK excluding London

FMCG
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FMCG in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for FMCG in the UK excluding London

FMCG
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FMCG in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FMCG in the UK excluding London

FMCG
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FMCG in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for FMCG in the UK excluding London

FMCG
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FMCG within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East of England +41 12 £600 +6.67% 24
North of England +15 5 £450 -25.00% 71
Scotland +7 5 - - 11
South West +38 4 £600 -33.33% 24
South East +36 3 £475 -9.52% 65
Yorkshire +11 3 £450 - 33
North West +13 2 - - 36
Midlands +4 2 £550 -21.43% 61
East Midlands +9 1 £625 +66.67% 26
West Midlands +9 1 £475 -34.48% 32
FMCG
UK

FMCG
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (12.90%) SAP ERP
1 4 (12.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.23%) NetSuite
2 1 (3.23%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 6 (19.35%) Power Platform
2 3 (9.68%) AWS
2 3 (9.68%) GitHub
2 3 (9.68%) PowerApps
3 2 (6.45%) Azure
3 2 (6.45%) Power Automate
3 2 (6.45%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.23%) Akamai
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.23%) iPaaS
4 1 (3.23%) SaaS
4 1 (3.23%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) BGP
1 1 (3.23%) DHCP
1 1 (3.23%) DMVPN
1 1 (3.23%) DNS
1 1 (3.23%) DWDM
1 1 (3.23%) GLBP
1 1 (3.23%) HTTP
1 1 (3.23%) HTTPS
1 1 (3.23%) IGRP
1 1 (3.23%) Internet
1 1 (3.23%) LAN
1 1 (3.23%) MPLS
1 1 (3.23%) Multicast
1 1 (3.23%) NetScaler
1 1 (3.23%) OSPF
1 1 (3.23%) SD-WAN
1 1 (3.23%) SNMP
1 1 (3.23%) SSL
1 1 (3.23%) VPN
1 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) Power BI
2 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.23%) Power Query
3 1 (3.23%) QlikView
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) LoadRunner
1 5 (16.13%) NeoLoad
2 4 (12.90%) Jenkins
3 3 (9.68%) JIRA
3 3 (9.68%) JMeter
4 1 (3.23%) GitLab
4 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.81%) Manufacturing
3 6 (19.35%) Finance
3 6 (19.35%) Pharmaceutical
3 6 (19.35%) Retail
4 2 (6.45%) Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Marketing
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Automotive
5 1 (3.23%) Electronics
5 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Project Manager
2 5 (16.13%) Lead
3 4 (12.90%) Consultant
3 4 (12.90%) Senior
3 4 (12.90%) Test Leader
4 3 (9.68%) Business Intelligence Consultant
4 3 (9.68%) Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Account Director
5 2 (6.45%) Change Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Data Scientist
5 2 (6.45%) Power BI Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) Technical Manager
6 1 (3.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Developer
6 1 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) FMCG Manager
6 1 (3.23%) IFS Consultant
6 1 (3.23%) Power BI Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) 802.1X
1 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (3.23%) HTML
1 1 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Life Science
2 2 (6.45%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.23%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (29.03%) ERP
3 7 (22.58%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (19.35%) Agile
5 5 (16.13%) Non-Functional Testing
5 5 (16.13%) Test Management
5 5 (16.13%) Waterfall
6 4 (12.90%) Analytics
6 4 (12.90%) CRM
6 4 (12.90%) Project Delivery
6 4 (12.90%) Project Management
7 3 (9.68%) Business Strategy
7 3 (9.68%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (9.68%) Data Governance
7 3 (9.68%) Matrix Management
7 3 (9.68%) Migration
7 3 (9.68%) Service Management
7 3 (9.68%) Validation
7 3 (9.68%) Visualisation
8 2 (6.45%) Email Marketing
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.90%) SQL
2 2 (6.45%) Python
3 1 (3.23%) Bash
3 1 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) CCDP
2 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) GxP
1 3 (9.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
1 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Ansible
1 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (35.48%) SAP
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.23%) Alteryx
3 1 (3.23%) Ariba
3 1 (3.23%) Arista
3 1 (3.23%) Blue Coat
3 1 (3.23%) Cisco
3 1 (3.23%) Citrix
3 1 (3.23%) F5
3 1 (3.23%) IFS
3 1 (3.23%) Infor
3 1 (3.23%) Juniper
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) Riverbed
3 1 (3.23%) VMware
3 1 (3.23%) Zscaler